The Everything-Recorder Recently I came across a mention of a new “search thing” which I found interesting. It’s an application called Rewind that allows you to “Find anything you’ve seen, said, or heard”. I say it’s interesting, because of the relatable experience of putting a Product Search Engine for WooCommerce out there that provides tremendous […]
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Decent Comments revamped
After a couple of years in development hibernation, I’ve tackled the task of reviewing the Decent Comments plugin and prepare a new release. It actually took two releases in a row, 1.11.0 yesterday and then 1.12.0 today, the latter of which fixes fatal errors caused by changes introduced in the former. Thanks to a user […]
WordPress Support Session
It’s nice to see that people are working with Groups also over the weekend! We’ve had a few requests related to Groups which I’ve attended today and I wanted to summarize here: Groups PayPal – Publish GPLv3 Open Source on GitHubIncompatibility with BuddyBossPost Read restriction and Cron job The first one is related to a […]
Users managing WordPress Groups
A recent request we have received is related to managing things with the Groups plugin for WordPress. It touches on an interesting and important set of functions that would be great to have: Users creating groups?Pre-install question:Is it possible to allow all users to create groups and manage who goes into those groups with this […]
WordPress Support Session
Today I’ve attended to a few things as part of our regular WordPress support sessions, this time it was really nice to see two new 5* ratings users of the Groups plugin provided: What I needed to enhance securityElegant way of grouping your customers/members It’s really awesome to read about the use cases, not only […]
Affiliates 4.13.0 Releases & Happy Mother’s Day Sale
The latest versions of our Affiliates system have been released: Affiliates 4.13.0, the free versionAffiliates WooCommerce Light 1.14.0, the free integration with WooCommerceAffiliates Pro 4.13.0, the premium version of our system with great features for advanced businesses useAffiliates Enterprise 4.13.0, our most exhaustive premium version with even more features for enterprise deploymentsAffiliates WooCommerce 3.8.0, the […]
New Affiliates 4.12.0 releases are out!
Hooray! We have just released the latest versions of our Affiliates system: Affiliates 4.12.0, the free versionAffiliates WooCommerce Light 1.13.0, the free integration with WooCommerceAffiliates Pro 4.12.0, our premium version for advanced businessesAffiliates Enterprise 4.12.0, our premium version with even more features for advanced businessesAffiliates WooCommerce 3.7.0, the advanced integration with WooCommerce for use with […]
Make it Sustainable
Why we decided to wind down all products sold via the Envato Marketplace and make them available only in our Shop. TL; DR : To maintain high quality software is feasible only if the ongoing costs of doing so are covered, while the time and work of the people who develop, maintain and provide support […]
WordPress Mail Debugging
Sometimes you just want to see what emails are sent or what they contain, without actually having them sent. Cases where this might be desirable include … Working on a development site and you want to avoid that the site sends real emails.Tests during plugin development to see if your plugin sends the right emails.Validating […]
How to pass Affiliate info to a WhatsApp Chat
WhatsApp can be quick way to allow customers to get in touch when they have questions. If a customer has been referred by an affiliate and contacts you via chat, you might want to know whether the customer has been referred by an affiliate. This quick guide explains how to do it using the free […]
The WooCommerce Product Search Engine, Caching and Performance based on Memberships
In a recent release of our WooCommerce Product Search extension, we introduced caching based on WordPress roles and group memberships with Groups. Previously, it was often necessary to disable object caching or caching for users who are logged in. The reason for this was that the systems involved were not able to discern between content that […]
Why Influencer Marketing?
Influencer Marketing is a form of Selling. Influencers have an impact on those who admire, envy or idolize them. Many definitions of Influencer Marketing start somehow like this: Influencer Marketing is a form of social media marketing … – I really think that those definitions suck. It’s like saying The Apple Fruit is a kind […]
How to: WordPress Multilingual CMS Content Blocks, Widgets and Sidebars
Building multilingual sites with WordPress and WPML is easy. The additional control with WYSIWYG Content Blocks, powerful visibility control over widgets and sidebars you get with Widgets Control and its compatibility with WPML (1) make it a very powerful combination. WPML lets you translate pages, posts, custom types, taxonomies, menus and even gives you control […]
Tracking Social Media Campaigns
So here we sit brainstorming in the morning over coffee, around how we are going to maximize the potential revenue obtained through promoted Tweets. As interesting as that is by itself … why am I sharing this with you? Because we are going to use our own product, Affiliates Enterprise, to analyze the effects of those promoted […]